Fire at BP’s Texas City Refinery

Friday, November 2, 2012 @ 09:11 AM gHale

BP is now investigation the cause of a fire fueled by heavy crude at BP’s Texas City refinery Tuesday that sent a large plume of black smoke over the industrial sector of the city.

The fire broke out at about 1:30 p.m. and was out by 3:05 p.m., BP officials said. BP spokeswoman Ruth Rendon said the fire was at the Resid Hydrotreating Unit (RHU) in the western section of the refinery. The fire, fueled by heavy crude, also called bottom crude oil, proved tough to extinguish.